SE Asia, Taiwan and China. Associate partner, Access Asia Group, founder, ChinaDiction, occasional ADB writing and editorial consultant.
Phnom Penh/Bangkok
Joined January 2022
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He's the only one allowed to do it for the moment (rules are rules, after all), but just the fact he can do it (and even though he's voting for himself) fills the hearts of common Chinese with ever-swelling pride at the thought, One day, me too!
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The Department of Transportation says it has begun replacing floppy disks with digital displays, giving air traffic controllers faster access to critical safety information as part of a broader ATC overhaul.
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Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong, already serving a 4 year plus jail sentence, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for conspiring to collude with foreign forces.
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Joshua Wong is one of the faces of Hong Kong’s new generation of democracy advocates. Detained since November 2020, he faces sentencing on 5 November. Please remember him. Don’t let him be forgotten.
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I'm going to assume Fox News has switched over to airing Swan Lake at this point
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Translation: Wang Yi told Lazaro to muzzle Teodoro. Good luck with that.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi urged the Philippine side to rein in relevant individuals and send a rational and unified message on its China policy, in a phone conversation on Tuesday with Philippine Foreign Affairs Secretary Ma. Theresa Lazaro. Lazaro said the Philippines remains committed to its one-China policy, and is willing to resolve maritime and other issues with China through dialogue and consultation. globaltimes.cn/page/202611/1…
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The #PRC is such a big bully. In addition to the high number of air sorties indicated earlier, the #PLAN & #CCG have also deployed 100+ vessels in the #WesternPacific as of now. #Taiwan is staying vigilant. We won’t provoke, but we won’t bow to any pressure.
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Actually the “dropping dumplings into a pot” (下饺子) analogy was first coined and popularised by PRC netizens to boast about the phenomenal speed at which their domestic shipyards churn out vessels for the PLA Navy and China Coast Guard. 😉
It's just amazing, the things that China thinks of. Imagine, going to the Moon and exploring the Solar System in 2026. Forward thinking!
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Scoop - Japan and Taiwan are working on a broad trade pact, according to sources with direct knowledge of the talks, that could provide a strategic anchor between the Asian tech powers and break a logjam in Taiwanese trade diplomacy. @NikkeiAsia 1/4 asia.nikkei.com/economy/trad…
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@michaelxpettis view, delivered over two chilly hours in his hutong courtyard: China’s best realistic future looks like Japan — a decade-plus of flat growth while it works off history’s biggest debt overhang. And that’s the optimistic case.
He's been thinking again ...
Trump:
I could have won the Vietnam War in a week.
They kept bombing forests for years instead of going after Ho Chi Minh City.
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Ho Chi Minh City was called Saigon during the war. It was the capital of South Vietnam, the US ally, and was renamed only in 1976. The US did repeatedly bomb North Vietnam's capital, Hanoi, including the 1972 Christmas bombing.
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Spends much of the day blocking critics and deleting old pro-Maoist posts on X.
Jostein Hauge from Cambridge, a fervent supporter of the CCP and its leaders including Mao Zedong and Xi Jinping…
He had deleted all his recent posts about Mao…
He blocked me years ago… 😂😂😂
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In my latest China's Eye, I reflect on Beijing's own goals with French footballer Kylian Mbappé, with Real Madrid, with the top Spanish football league, with the Philippines and with the entirety of ASEAN ... Please read and share.
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